- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:20:53 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> If that's not an option for you (and, by the way, it SHOULD be; the > idea of a huge site full of static pages is a VERY dated concept and It's interesting how software goes in circles. HTML was designed to replace gopher, because gopher looked too much like it had been generated from a database, but HTML allowed one to mix in links in the correct context in the text. Once you start mechanically generating HTML from structured data, you are repeating the circle, rather than making real progress. My own perception of the way the W3C tries to go is that they would want the master document to be a public XML document, not one hidden in the server, and to use style sheets to customise it to different formats, client side.
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